Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

In much of your talking thinking is half murdered.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.

Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.